i want to know who she is so i can look her up on facebook and hopefully find her phone number so i can breathe heavy on it to the sound of her voice (this is my first thought when i see a woman)

seriously a crying real doll would save me so much time

wait, did he get unbanned and then banned again or what?

it looked like he was doing ok too, just posting consecutively a little too much.

I got some pictures jamie and I've posted them all over. There are actually some videos that trace took that I uploaded here a month or two ago. I'll go through a daily routine or something later when I get off. Kinda busy now.

Trace did you look for another ship yet? The union closed membership a little while ago, I was gonna tell you when I got back in december but...

oh shit. Good luck with that, hope you don't come out fucking whacko.

what made you change your mind to subs? the money or did someone convince you?

Edit: oh yeah jamie what did you want to know in particular about shipping? Its basically going out for an extended period of time to work on a ship. Me and Trace go out as deckhands on the ship so we keep up general maintenance, kind of like sea janitors or something. Ships are usually made of steel hulls which get painted and primed over, eventually the seawater eats through the paint and causes it to rust up, so we usually chip off the rust with a needle gun then re-paint it. We keep up with emergency equipment like liferings, lifeboats, and liferafts. On this particular ship its got a helo-deck so we dress out in fire fighting gear or escourt people on and off the helocopters and put their baggage on and off for em'. Theres alot of other shit we do too but its different shit all the time so basically just go with sea janitor. We also stand watches on the bridge, keep an eye out for traffic out at sea and anything else that might be out of the ordinary (sea buoys, possibly whales, or anything the ship could hit). We also steer the ship with coordinates given out by the mate on watch. The mate does the navigation and plots the chart and is the head of the bridge while on watch. On the DB 50 the deckhands don't usually stand watches though.

Being on a ship is like living in an incredibly small village but instead you're on a giant boat in the middle of the ocean. Everyone knows everyone and gossip spreads pretty fucking quick. There aren't alot of girls onboard usually, there are a few here and there but I guess many women don't decide to sail, or if they do its on like a cruise ship or something like that. You live in a fairly small room,sometimes with one or two other people and sometimes alone. There is a galley (sailor for kitchen) run by galley hands which cook you food at the main mealtimes and make sure that the galley is stocked incase you wanna snack or something. Some ships keep a little store onboard with candy and consumables incase you need something, this one doesn't though because the hitches (time you're serving) are pretty short and you can bring what you need on your own. Sometimes the weather can get rough and the ship will rock, I think those times are fun but some people don't. Usually if theres a hurricane or a really nasty storm coming the mates will try to move the ship out of harms way, but sometimes ships get caught in rough weather. I've never been through a hurricane yet but I think I'd like to be in a low scale one once just to say I did it.

there is probably a bunch of shit I forgot so feel free to ask if that was at all a serious question.

what does your ship do??? i assumed fishing because that's all i imagine boats doing, but is it like a cargo ship or something? also how big is it, how many people etc? how big is your bedroom?

your cat looks like a large pile of hair with eyes

It's not easy being green.

It's not easy being green.

good one i'll have to use that. i've been telling people my hair is jealous of me so far

may hair isn't feeling too well

yeah thats why you don't dye your hair and then bleach it

no i did it the other way round

woops i think that is what i meant i don't know much about hair

what does your ship do??? i assumed fishing because that's all i imagine boats doing, but is it like a cargo ship or something? also how big is it, how many people etc? how big is your bedroom?

its got two cranes on it one is huge, nearly as long as the ship itself. The other is a crawler crane with treads on it so it can move around, the crawler is a little smaller than the huge ass one. The cranes are used to build oil rigs and carry people and equipment and even whole rig sections over to the spot where the oil rig is or is going to be built. We're usually just used to build oil rigs but right now we're mainly being used as a floating hotel (flotel) for the hundreds of contractors working on the oil rig. It sucks because they're fucking everywhere and its hard to get around, use the computer, or eat or go to the gym or basically do anything with dozens and dozens of assholes just crowding everything up because they don't work atleast a day or two out of the week when the weather gets rough and apparently they have nothing better to do than get in my fucking way all the time.

Right now I think we've got about 270 people on board, my room is a little over half the size of a normal bedroom and its got two bunks in it plus a fold out couch that doubles as a bed. The ship itself is nearly as long as a football field I'm pretty sure give or take some and the house of the ship is six stories high.

All in all I think this ship is ok because most of the people I work with are pretty cool and I make alot of money but the ship never ever fucking docks and I'm trapped here with a bunch of dudes for a month at a time. I heard we're going to drydock soon so I'm going to wait and see if that happens but if it doesn't I'm going to find another job, because this is getting boring. And I don't have enough seatime for the company to send me to mate school yet so fuck it I'll go somewhere else for awhile if I can.

What?? No homosexuality in this thread? We need to fix this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!